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Published in the Daily Campus on November 21, 2019 http://dailycampus.squarespace.com/stories/2019/11/21/tomkatnbspshould-use-some-of-the-time-he-spends-skateboarding-on-accessibilitynbsp I may be the only person on campus who does not care that President Thomas Katsouleas can skateboard. In between ollies, TomKat focuses his on… Read more

Published in the Daily Campus on December 6, 2019 Charles Dickens unwittingly described our current political situation when writing “A Tale of Two Cities”: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age… Read more

Published in the Daily Campus on February 7, 2020 http://dailycampus.squarespace.com/stories/2020/07/02/ocasio-dont-fly-too-close-to-the-sun-how-alexandria-both-inspires-and-draws-ire Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has the childhood story that many politicians dream of. She grew up in a middle-class neighborhood with Puerto Rican parents. She lived in the… Read more

Published in the Daily Campus on February 14, 2020 http://dailycampus.squarespace.com/stories?author=5d8043606b54da60dce1a7e4 Anyone who runs a club at the University of Connecticut is probably unsurprised that UConn is among the 10 worst colleges for free speech, according to the… Read more

Published in the Daily Campus on April 7, 2020 http://dailycampus.squarespace.com/stories/2020/4/7/academia-divided-over-controversial-paper-about-hereditary-intelligence Should academia have a greater devotion to social justice, or should its focus primarily be on open inquiry? If science can prevent certain unsavory questions… Read more

Published in the Daily Campus on April 17, 2020 http://dailycampus.squarespace.com/stories?author=5d8043606b54da60dce1a7e4 In the ’60s, Alan Charles Kors, professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania, co-founded Van Pelt College House,  a residence for students to be… Read more

Published in the Daily Campus on April 27, 2020 http://dailycampus.squarespace.com/stories?author=5d8043606b54da60dce1a7e4 “The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic” was written… Read more

Published in the Daily Campus on May 1, 2020 http://dailycampus.squarespace.com/stories/2020/5/1/taking-the-hedonic-treadmill-up-maslows-pyramid Johnny, when boarding the plane, is notified that this is the first flight ever with a Wi-Fi connection. How exciting! Several hours later, accompanied by… Read more

Published in the Daily Campus on September 14, 2020 In 1955, politics in the United States on the right had become completely stagnant, and repulsive to the intellectual class. William Buckley, a young Yale graduate… Read more

Published in the Daily Campus on September 21, 2020 Ibram X. Kendi, the prominent (and deeply mistaken) author of ‘How to Be An Antiracist’ recently wrote an op-ed in Politico about the need to pass an antiracist constitutional… Read more